[Seizethecarp]

Going viral ping...

[mnehring]

??
Looks like older cases are being archived into ‘bound’ .pdf files.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?Search=Happersett&type=Site

[TheBigIf]

This is astonishing. This needs to become more known. There is an ever-growing body of evidence of intentional cover-up involving the ineligibility of Barry Soetoro.

[Tublecane]

This is interesting, but there’s no memory hole for the internet. Scrubbing an entire case from the record is like trying to get pee out of a pool. It’s in there. People can still find Minor v Happersett without “dusty law texts” and “expensive legal research services.”

[Prokopton]

but 99.99 percent of the population has no access to dusty law texts or expensive legal research services such as Lexis and Westlaw.

I find Google to be superior to Lexis and Westlaw for about 50% of my legal research. Google Scholar and many other free search engines make it possible for anyone to research the law, not that there are that many people who really want to.

[Mr Rogers]

Maybe these serious researchers should have looked here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0088_0162_ZO.html

[Mr. K]

Has anyone asked them to respond to this info yet?

[jmaroneps37]

This makes my blood boil!

[trumandogz]

“but 99.99 percent of the population has no access to dusty law texts or expensive legal research services such as Lexis and Westlaw.”

That’s simply not true.

My guess is that more than 1 out of every 10,000 people in this country has access to law texts, dusty or not and to Lexis and Westlaw.

[opentalk]

"The reality that both candidates eligibility was questionable according to Minor v. Happersett appears to have been known and handled by somebody's legal team. However, Justia CEO Tim Stanley was associated with 'Obama For America 2008,'" he wrote.

Who knows what else they scrubbed, Justica can not be used as a reliable source in court discovery.

[rolling_stone]

....Was legal site rewrite a liberal plot? Not quite....

...The Justia’s chief executive, Tim Stanley, told CNET today that some citations were mangled because of a programmer's error, not an effort to rewrite history.

“This has nothing to do with President Obama and it is not a conspiracy,” Stanley said. “When we discovered the issue, we corrected the script and the cases now render correctly. The issue was not limited to the cases these folks are focused on. We've had internal discussions on how to make sure this does not happen in the future with additional visual and parsing checks.”.....

....Stanley said he wasn't sure how many cases were affected before the bug was discovered and fixed. “It was just the U.S. Supreme Court cases, not the state, federal appellate and district court cases,” he said. ....

Must be a coincidence?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20124882-281/was-legal-site-rewrite-a-liberal-plot-not-quite/

[sargon]

Simply an awesomely inspiring and sobering account. I am sending the link to all my friends and family. Read some of the guy's followups, too.

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